Usage
Stage6 accepted a wide variety of video content, including TV clips and trailers, music videos, feature length television episodes and films, as well as amateur content such as video-blogging, original videos and amateur films. Unregistered users could view and download to hard-drive all videos on the site, except those containing potentially offensive content.
The users who went through the free registration had access to additional features. These included:
- "18+" videos. These usually containing pornography or other sexual content, excessive blood and gore or obscenity. Note that Stage6 did not censor offensive content.
- Rating. The users had the ability to either rate the video as "good", by clicking on the "thumb up"-button, or respectively "bad", by clicking the "thumb down"-button. After a significant number of hits the site then rated the video's popularity on its search or front pages, by either displaying up to five "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" respectively. The videos with higher rating were then displayed higher in the search results.
- Comments. The users had an opportunity to add a comment, placed below the video.
- Tagging. The registered users were able to place and suggest the removal of tags to each video. These were then used to power the inbuilt search engine.
Stage6 also featured its own search engine profiling the videos by the user-generated tags and their popularity. Because the search engine used the tags, rather than the title, as a primary search criteria, it was often difficult to find a video based on its name.
Significant differences between Stage6 and other sites included better quality video through use of higher resolutions up to 1080p, few upload limitations, the option to download media directly through the website or the DivX Web Player, however this feature has been removed in the update, without the need to install browser extensions, and the use of DivX video codec instead of Flash Video. Unlike most video sharing websites, Stage6 required the installation of the DivX Web Player to view videos. The DivX Content Uploader is also bundled with the DivX Web Player, enabling users to upload Stage6 compliant videos via web browser.
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